Kypreos says amnesty buy-outs will be available over the next two summers. I think you have to consider Richards in the summer of 2014. He will be 34 with 6 seasons left with a $6.67M cap hit and a potential cap benefit recapture charge if he retires early. It would cost 18 million real dollars. Stepan, McDonagh, Del Zotto will have new contracts. Lundqvist, Callahan, Girardi, Kreider, Gaborik's contracts will be up.

Kypreos says amnesty buy-outs will be available over the next two summers. I think you have to consider Richards in the summer of 2014. He will be 34 with 6 seasons left with a $6.67M cap hit and a potential cap benefit recapture charge if he retires early. It would cost 18 million real dollars. Stepan, McDonagh, Del Zotto will have new contracts. Lundqvist, Callahan, Girardi, Kreider, Gaborik's contracts will be up.

I guess we'll have to see how he plays this season. If he has a 20/30 season or something like that, yeah, you gotta move on him. If he has a great year and is near a PPG, I don't know...

He wrote teams would be interested in Redden if the Rangers amnestied him assuming there were compliance buyouts and they took place this season.

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One final note on Redden. It looks like the Rangers have all but guaranteed he is getting the buyout (if there is one) and the sense is there is going to be a lot of interest in him. Don't know what the final salary will be. But if he's willing to be reasonable -- and you have to believe he will be -- he's going to have options. Lots of execs think he will be good value at a lower number.

Technically the Upper limit is $60 million with an allowance to spend up to $70.2 million. The significance of the wording I don't know, and don't really care to know. We don't need to get under $60 million.

If our second amnesty is in 2014, no doubt Richards has to be it, even if he plays well. There is no way he will be worth $7 a year from the age of 34 to 40. No way. We can use the $7 on a similarly talented playerbut one in his prime.

It is very clear that buy out 1 will be redden.... i imagine they keep second one in there back pocket in case Nash Or Richards regress...You never know. Say Nash cant get a handle hear boom buyout. Heres hoping we arent discussing that!